I have come to believe

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,

a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own

mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
- Umberto Eco -

When you do the common things

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world.”
- George Washington Carver -

I am ready to meet my Maker

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether

my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of

meeting me is another matter.”
- Sir Winston Churchill -

Good people do not need

“Good people do not need laws to tell

them to act responsibly, while bad people will find

a way around the laws.”
- Plato -

enjoy ourselves

“I don’t know why we are here,

but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order

to enjoy ourselves.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein -

Would you tell me

‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where –’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘–so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.
- Lewis Carroll -

Neither a lofty degree

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor

imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -

Keep away from people

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,

too, can become great.
- Mark Twain -

Never worry about the size

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.

In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
- Larry Wilde -